Love Siktempora
CREATURE 16Acts of great and intense love spawn love siktemporas, kindly creatures bearing intense strength that start and end wars in the name of the love that birthed them. These adept combatants form crossbows and bolts out of their emotional bonds, though they typically fight only to protect that which they love. While unable to speak given their featureless faces, they're nevertheless compassionate listeners and savvy communicators.
Each love siktempora takes the form of two small humanoids conjoined at the hip with three legs, two arms, and two heads. Their faces are completely featureless except for a faint, ever present blush spread across their cheeks, and they always appear garbed in stylish garments from obscure civilizations.
In the Dimension of Time, intense emotions are more than just ethereal feelings. They accumulate over time, from things like the critical mass of emotion caused by a historic event or a settlement passing down a powerful sentiment for generations. These accretions eventually give birth to siktemporas. Each siktempora feels, with all their being, a singular intense emotion linked to the circumstances that spawned them. A rare few, however, are created when an emotionally invested creature attempts to travel to the Dimension of Time or interferes with the flow of time, which can create paradoxes or manipulate past events.
Siktemporas usually isolate themselves on the Dimension of Time in mindscapes infused with the emotion that created them, but some travel to other planes. These wanderers long to indulge in more of their core emotion or to engender more of that feeling, thus perpetuating their own kind.
A monster with telepathy can communicate mentally with any creatures within the listed radius, as long as they share a language. This doesn't give any special access to their thoughts, and communicates no more information than normal speech would.
A love siktempora can provide verbal components and auditory performances for their composition spells even though they can't speak. They do so without needing to make noise, as all creatures within range of their telepathy hear the components in their mind. However, the siktempora can do so only as long as at least one other creature with an Intelligence modifier of +0 or higher is within the range of their telepathy.
A siktempora can always roll Dimension of Time Lore for initiative. When it does, it gains a +2 circumstance bonus to the roll.
A constant spell affects the monster without the monster needing to cast it, and its duration is unlimited. If a constant spell gets counteracted, the monster can reactivate it by spending the normal spellcasting actions the spell requires.
This monster regains the listed number of Hit Points each round at the beginning of its turn. Its Dying condition never increases beyond Dying 3 as long as its regeneration is active. However, if it takes damage of a type listed in the regeneration entry, its regeneration deactivates until the end of its next turn. Deactivate the regeneration before applying any damage of a listed type, since that damage might kill the monster by bringing it to Dying 4.
A creature that takes mental damage from the love siktempora's emotional bolt must succeed at a DC 37 Will save or become Fascinated by the siktempora until the end of the target's next turn. Hostile actions don't end this fascinated condition.
The love siktempora's emotional bolt Strike doesn't trigger reactions that normally trigger based off making a ranged attack.
The love siktempora casts Courageous Anthem or Rallying Anthem. It increases the area to a 200-foot emanation and increases the status bonuses the cantrip provides to +2.
Effect: Inspire Courage (Love Siktempora)
Effect: Inspire Defense (Love Siktempora)